Religious Diversity and the Forces of Law in South Africa
نام نخستين پديدآور
Marian Burchardt
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Legal anthropologists and sociologists of religion increasingly recognize the importance of law in current controversies over religious diversity. Drawing on the case of South Africa, this article explores how such controversies are shaped by contestations over what counts as 'religion'. Analyzing the historical context and emergent forms of institutional secularity from which contemporary contestations over religious diversity draw, the article explores debates and practices of classification around religion, tradition, and culture, and the ways in which these domains are co-constituted through their claims on the law: on the one hand through an analysis of religion-related jurisprudence; on the other hand through an examination of the debates on witchcraft, law, and religion. I argue that the production of judicial knowledge of 'religion', 'culture', and 'tradition' is tied up with contestations over the power to define the meaning of the domains. In fact, contrary to notions of constitutionality in which rights seem to exist prior to the claims made on their basis, in a fundamental sense rights struggles help to constitute the contemporary human rights dispensation. Against the Comaroffs' claim that judicialization depoliticizes power struggles, I show that legal claims making remains vibrantly political.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2017
توصيف ظاهري
257-284
عنوان
Journal of Religion in Africa
شماره جلد
47/2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1570-0666
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اصطلاح موضوعی
African Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
African Traditional Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Anthropology of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Christianity
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
History of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
law
اصطلاح موضوعی
Middle East and Islamic Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
religious diversity
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
South Africa
اصطلاح موضوعی
witchcraft
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